2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music in District of Columbia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Music is the 43rd most popular major in the country with 25,860 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , music graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $27,123 and had an average of $27,532 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 80 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,342 and $23,546 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in music. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in music.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia master’s degree music students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music in District of Columbia

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified masters’s music students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Catholic University of America Music Report

2

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in District of Columbia list. Howard University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 1 masters’s music degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Music at Howard

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.